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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Anuj Pant

Auckland ‘clobbered’ with record-breaking downpour and massive floods

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New Zealand’s largest city Auckland was “clobbered” on Friday by a record-shattering downpour that led to more than 2,000 emergency calls being made, more than 700 incidents across the region and left at least three people dead and two others missing.

The wettest day on record in the city, that 1.6 million people call home, led to the sounding of a state of emergency.

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